Electroweak corrections to doubly polarised WZ scattering at the LHC

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A bstract: We present a calculation of next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to the vector-boson scattering (VBS) process resulting in leptonically decaying W and Z bosons in association with two jets at the LHC. The VBS process is computed for both polarised and unpolarised intermediate bosons, exploiting the pole approximation and the separation of helicity states in tree-level and one-loop amplitudes. A phenomenological analysis is carried out for a realistic fiducial setup at a 13.6 TeV LHC collision energy, highlighting different patterns for the various polarisation states both at integrated and at differential level. This study provides theoretical predictions that are necessary to perform a sound characterisation of the spin structure of VBS processes with full LHC data.
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  • Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (05H24WWA)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE 623/8-1)
  • Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (D53C24005480001)
  • Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (H53D23000980006)
  • HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme (H45E2300129000)

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